October 1 2008 movie releases

- Ballast (NY)

- Religulous (NY; limited release: October 3)

Monday’s Numbers September 29, 2008

1	Eagle Eye	$2,078,092
2	Nights in Rodanthe	$979,550
3	Lakeview Terrace	$488,979
4	Burn After Reading	$471,328
5	Fireproof	$410,000
6	My Best Friend’s Girl	$339,513
7	Righteous Kill	$316,072
8	Miracle at St. Anna	$300,238
9	Igor	$238,463
10	The Women	$235,442

Finally, some good movies!

That’s amazing how life can turn everything its own way. Just like in these two movies opening today. Both of them tell us about two people who find themselves in new circumstances. They both have their own stories and their own reasons to escape, but life or destiny, whatever you call it, brings them together and helps them find answers. The only term to follow is they must stick together to change their lives for good. And find what they’re looking for, of course.

Eagle Eye starring Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, and Billy Bob Thornton is a thriller about two strangers thrown together by a strange call from a woman they have never met. Jerry Shaw (LaBeouf) has just lost his twin brother and Rachel Holloman (Monaghan) is a single mom, so they suddenly find out they’re fitted up as terrorists, and are threatened into becoming members of a group aiming to assassinate a politician. They must stick together to find out what’s really happening and why they’re involved.

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September 26 2008 movie releases

September 26

- The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela (NY, LA)

- Eagle Eye (conventional theaters and IMAX)

- Humboldt County (NY, LA)

- The Lucky Ones

- Miracle at St. Anna

- Nights in Rodanthe

- Obscene (NY)

September 19 2008 movie releases

- A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (NY)

- All of Us (NY)

- Ghost Town

- Lakeview Terrace

- My Best Friend’s Girl

- Appaloosa (NY, LA, Toronto; wide: October 3)

- Igor

- Battle in Seattle (limited)

- The Duchess (limited)

- Elite Squad (Tropa De Elite) (limited)

- Hounddog (limited)

Burn After Reading movie release September 12 2008

Genre Comedy, Drama
Release Date September 12, 2008
Studio Focus Features

Starring

George Clooney as Harry Pfarrer
John Malkovich as Osbourne Cox
Frances McDormand
Brad Pitt as Chad Feldheimer
Tilda Swinton as Katie Cox
Richard Jenkins
Logan Kulick
Lenny Venito

The Coen brothers’ follow-up to their Best Picture-winning No Country for Old Men is — no surprise for this offbeat filmmaking duo — its polar opposite. A sort of Fargo on helium, Burn is a goofball crime caper about two dim-witted gym employees (Pitt and Frances McDormand) who try to extort a curmudgeonly CIA agent (Malkovich) after they come across a CD-ROM containing possibly classified information. A-list names like Clooney and Pitt may sell the most tickets, but it’s the potty-mouthed Malkovich who easily racks up the most laughs. “The first scene I did was a phone call with Brad and Frances,” says Malkovich, whose character drops countless F-bombs throughout the film. “Unfortunately, I couldn’t be there on the soundstage because I was rehearsing a play. So I did it from an apartment in Paris. It was really late at night and I was screaming at the top of my lungs. God knows what the neighbors thought.”

Also along for the ride is newly minted Academy Award winner Swinton, as Malkovich’s testy wife, while Clooney plays her scheming lover — though that doesn’t mean the former Michael Clayton adversaries, who filmed Burn during last year’s Oscar-campaign season, have the best onscreen relationship this go-around, either. Recalls Swinton: “At the end of the shoot, George said, touchingly, wistfully, ‘Well, maybe one day we’ll get to make a film together when we say one nice thing to each other.’”

September 12 2008 movie releases

- Burn After Reading Main Cast: George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Brad Pitt

- Christmas on Mars: A Fantastical Film Freakout Featuring the Flaming Lips (NY)

- Flow: For Love of Water (NY, LA; expands: Sept. 19; expands: Sept. 26)

- Moving Midway (NY)

- Righteous Kill

- Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys

- The Women

- Phoebe in Wonderland (limited)

- Forgiveness (limited)

Ping Pong Playa-movie release September 5 2008

Starring: Jimmy Tsai, Andrew Vo, Khary Payton, Roger Fan, Jim Lau
Directed by: Jessica Yu
Produced by: Jeff Gou, Anne Clements, Michael O. Gallant

Genres: Comedy, Romance and Sports
Running Time: 1 hr. 36 min.
Release Date: September 5th, 2008 (limited)
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for language, including some sexual remarks and drug references.
Distributors: IFC Films

Christopher “C-DUB” Wang is a young Chinese-American man who presents himself with a streetwise, ghetto swagger and dreams of a career as a basketball star. But soon he finds his real gift as a ping-pong player and coach, leading an odd squad of students to a local championship.

Save me Movie review – Release September 5 2008

starring: Robert Gant, Chad Allen, Judith Light, Stephen Lang

director: Robert Cary

Release Date: Sep 5, 2008

Running Time: 96 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

As disagreements continue to heat up between red states and blue states, and liberals and evangelicals during this election season, Save Me makes its debut as a story that may be in search of unlikely middle ground. Filmmaker Robert Cary, who last delved with great wit and warmth into the agony and ecstasy of Jewish relationship debacles in an urban setting with Ira And Abby, goes to nearly opposite extremes with Save Me. Here he veers into highly hot topic territory in a dramatic confrontation between homosexuality and Christian orthodoxy in rural New Mexico.

Chad Allen (St. Elsewhere) is Mark, a young party hard, promiscuous gay coke addict who attempts suicide in a dingy hotel after his latest one night stand bolts and dumps him at dawn. Mark’s distraught family pressures him to check into the males only Genesis House, a born again rehab retreat specializing in a strict regimen of full time faith as the cure for gay ’sexual brokenness.’

Mark’s initial rebellious resistance to his surroundings slowly smooths over into acceptance and personal reflection under the mixed bag of stern and yet caring support from head matriarch Gayle (Judith Light). Consumed by a ‘warriors for Jesus’ style of Christian doctrine and adhering to the literally straight and narrow road as the only acceptable lifestyle, Gayle bans everything from smoking and cursing, to crossing your legs too daintily and same sex glancing. She also recruits available young women periodically to attend a dance party on the grounds, in order to hopefully keep any potential unapproved sexual urges of the Genesis House occupants in check.

But it turns out that Gayle has some fairly unresolved obsessions of her own, related to the death of her son years ago. And her unhealthy, overly prying attachment to Mark eventually shakes up the deceptive calm of the residence in major ways.

Save Me remarkably manages to find a delicate balance between powerfully opposing points of view around religious devotion and sexual preference. And though the film’s sentiments are clearly pro-gay, they’re not quite crafted as evangelical caricature or an assault against Christian values.

At the same time, each character is fleshed out with uncommon sensitivity, in a story where there are ultimately no true villains. The point of Save Me is that fear, not loathing is the greatest enemy to mutual understanding and acceptance of both difference, and the differently desired. Not a bad notion to convey in these morally divisive times

A Secret movie September 5 2008

A secret movie

Running Time: 1 hr. 50 min.

Release Date: September 5th, 2008 (limited)

Starring: Mathieu Amalric, Patrick Bruel, Cecile De France, Ludivine Sagnier, Julie Depardieu

Directed by: Claude Miller

Produced by: Sylvestre Guarino, Yves Marmion, Alfred Hurmer

A secret movie 2008

Adapted from Philippe Grimbert’s celebrated autobiographical novel, Memory (Simon and Schuster), “A Secret” follows the saga of a Jewish family in post-World War II Paris. François, a solitary, imaginative child, invents for himself a brother as well as the story of his parents` past. But on his fifteenth birthday, he discovers a dark family secret that ties his family’s history to the Holocaust and shatters his illusions forever.

Before the war, his father, Maxime, (Patrick Bruel, “The Comedy of Power”) was married to Hannah (Ludivine Sagnier, “Swimming Pool,” “Love Songs,” “A Girl Cut in Two,” “Public Enemy”) when he fell madly in love with Francois’s mother, Tania (Cécile de France, “The Russian Dolls,” “Avenue Montaigne,” “Public Enemy”). As a young Jewish couple living in Nazi-occupied France, Maxime and Tania were compelled to make difficult choices to survive the war while Hannah (Sagnier) would make a decision that would change her life and that of her family forever.